Cloud Nine (Acting Edition)

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Description

Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors

The time-shifting comedy by the creator of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There may be Clive, a British functionary, his wife Betty (played by a man), their daughter Victoria (a rag doll), Clive’s friend Harry an explorer, Mrs. Saunders who runs about dressed in a riding habit, Clive’s son Edward who still plays with dolls and is played by a woman and Joshua a native servant who knows exactly what is in reality going on. What in reality is occurring is a marvelous send up and a non-stop round robin of sexual liaisons. All this time the natives are restless in the background. The second one act shifts to London in 1980 excluding for the surviving characters it’s only twenty five years later and all those repressed sexual longings have evaporated at the side of the Empire.

“Intelligent, inventive and funny.”-The New York Times

“I in reality have no idea when I’ve had more fun. It blends farce, pathos into a work of total theatre.”-New York Day-to-day News


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